Memeorandum

April 29, 2009

Obama Is Even Greater Then We Realize

Obama's press office puts out a release detailing his brilliance, patience, and insight into both the political process and the business of making cars. My goodness, what a time-saver - in an earlier era we would need to see what Obama actually did and whether it worked, but the internet has speeded up everything.

For a new president, the automobile industry crisis has tested the
boundaries of his activist approach and the acuity of his political
instincts. As with so many issues in his action-packed 100 days in
office, Mr. Obama confronted choices few of his predecessors
encountered. His ongoing intervention in an iconic sector of the
economy offers a case study in the education, management and
decision-making of a fledgling president.

Tutored by veterans of past administrations, Mr. Obama, often after
dinner with his wife and daughters, devoured briefing papers until
midnight to master the intricacies of the auto industry. But he had
advisers deal directly with the car companies and never spoke with the
G.M. chief executive he effectively fired.

Methodical and dispassionate, Mr. Obama aggravated powerful players
in Congress and the unions that helped elect him, then moved to assuage
them. He encouraged internal debate but was forced to head off tensions
as his treasury secretary and White House economic adviser maneuvered
for position. In the end, he struggled with the proper balance between
government power and market forces, a theme that has defined his first
months in office.

He does it all. After dinner! More hagiography:

A half-hour into the meeting, an aide entered the Oval Office and
slipped Mr. Obama a note informing him another meeting was to begin.
The president told advisers he needed more time to decide Chrysler’s
fate. He then headed off for a day consumed by a new strategy for
Afghanistan, a threatened rocket launch by North Korea and the
evacuation of a flooded Fargo, N.D. (“What is this, a ‘West Wing’
episode?” Mr. Axelrod recalled asking Mr. Emanuel.)

What kind of investigative journalism is this, anyway? They are utterly silent on whether that Superman outfit gets scratchy or bunches up under his suit.

CLASSIC MOMENTS FOR WHICH THERE ARE NO MULLIGANS:

Mr. Obama grew irritated at the auto executives, who in his view had a
long history of bad decisions. “What are these guys thinking?” Mr.
Axelrod remembered Mr. Obama asking when the chief executives of
Chrysler, Ford and G.M. flew to Washington aboard corporate jets to
request a bailout.

The fawning over this guy is disgusting. It will settle out at some point as his rating head south. He will be judged in the rearview mirror in the future, and I hate to think what we will see. He will be the biggest assault on American values, attitudes and spirit the world has ever seen. We worry about all the threats from around the world, and we have the biggest one as our leader, he will do far more damage to America then all the others put together.

While General Electric, the parent-company of your MSNBC network, was negotiating a $126 billion taxpayer-funded bailout, you signed a new contract raising your salary from $4 million to $7.5 million annually. You have used your show as a platform to call for the resignation of corporate executives accepting excessive bonuses on the backs of taxpayers who are picking up the tab for these atrocious bailouts, yet you yourself have no problem engaging in the same "class economic rape" that you access them of.

Please heed you own advice and stop accepting taxpayer money to subsidize your nightly diatribes. Resign or return the balance of your excessive raise to the U.S. Treasury.

You have JOM love and you know it. Write a note to NB demanding credit. It's unique, unlike an opinion article where people could possibly have just come to the same conclusion themselves. This is irrefutably your exclusive work.

It probably also irks him that Fox isn't carrying him live- probably afraid he'll run over into the start of AI.

That may be, but I've never heard any other politician, let alone POTUS openly vilify a news network, or even public personalities. It would appear that the Obama administration does have an active enemies list.

GWB is at the top of that list. Look at how he has treated him and some of the things he's said in public. Just imagine what he has aid in private. The One has had a number of very snarky moments; the San Francisco bitter clingers one was one of the few widely reported.

He preselects the reporters and the questions in his press conferences; he overuses a teleprompter, his gaffes and interactions with global leaders have been abominable, and he is tone deaf to the reaction to things like the AF1 snafu and others he has caused.

But we're all supposed to join the kumbaya chorus. HE LISTENS and is empathetic to us as he marchs us through the gates of his socialist workers and activists paradise.

His snark on the tea party today was especially offensive since his whole career was as a community organizer...if he can';t recognize legitimate grass roots grievances with his "experience" he's going to be in a world of hurt that much faster.

His snark on the tea party today was especially offensive since his whole career was as a community organizer...if he can';t recognize legitimate grass roots grievances with his "experience" he's going to be in a world of hurt that much faster.

I don't think that was real successful career from what I've seen. Which would explain a lot. I doubt that he recognizes people with motivation when he sees them. Most of the folks that he was trying to organize were waiting to have something handed to them.

You bailout loving Republicans led us down this path. Principles of allowing entities to go bankrupt were compromised and now the whole thing is being run by fiat. Congrats, you have destroyed free markets. You had a chance to fight and didn't.

Po, On the contrary he got exactly what he wanted out of community organizing..sn entre into Chicago politics. Ditto with his use of Michelle and Rev. Wright. Everybody and everything has always been a stepping stone to hie achieving greater glory.